AARP's Tradition of Betrayal

-- choices will offer poor options, not quality care;

-- reform plans "will NOT give the government the power to make life or death decisions for anyone regardless of their age;"

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-- hundreds of billions in Medicare cuts and restricted expensive treatments will do it for them;

-- "Health care reform will help ensure doctors are paid fairly so they will continue to treat Medicare patients;"

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-- doctors already are unpaid and $200 billion in new cuts are proposed;

-- "None of the health care reform proposals being considered by Congress would cut Medicare benefits or increase your out-of-pocket costs for Medicare services;"

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-- Obamacare assures both;

-- "Health care reform will reduce costly, preventable hospital readmissions, saving patients and Medicare money;"

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-- less care assures more illness, not less, and higher costs to be borne by recipients;

-- "Rather than weaken Medicare, health care reform will strengthen the financial status of the Medicare program;"

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-- proposed cuts, along with new ones, will weaken and eventually destroy Medicare as well as other social safety net protections because Washington prioritizes banker bailouts, other corporate subsidies, trillion dollar defense budgets, militarizing America, and servicing growing hundreds of billions in debt obligations;

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